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| Original Title: | The Great Gatsby |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Nick Carraway, Jay Gatsby, Daisy Buchanan, Tom Buchanan, Jordan Baker, Myrtle Wilson, Meyer Wolfsheim, George Wilson |
| Setting: | New York City, New York(United States) New York State(United States) Long Island, New York,1925(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Grammy Award Nominee for Best Spoken Word Album (2003) |
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Paperback | Pages: 200 pages Rating: 3.92 | 3543335 Users | 63486 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Great Gatsby |
| Author | : | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | US / CAN |
| Pages | : | Pages: 200 pages |
| Published | : | September 2004 by Scribner (first published 1925) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Young Adult. Fiction. Magic. Adventure. Young Adult Fantasy. Romance |
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Alternate Cover Edition ISBN: 0743273567 (ISBN13: 9780743273565) The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. This exemplary novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. The story is of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his new love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when The New York Times noted "gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession," it is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s. The Great Gatsby is one of the great classics of twentieth-century literature. (back cover)Rating Based On Books The Great Gatsby
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There once was a man they called Jay,A symbol of Jazz Age decay.And just as Scott held aFixation for Zelda,Jays Daisy dream sure made him pay!Read as part of The Infinite Variety Reading Challenge, based on the BBC's Big Read Poll of 2003.I am a Classics person, but not a Modern Classics reader. I prefer the Victorian and pre-Victorian Classics and Modern Classics have never really interested me. However, even before I began this Reading Challenge I knew that I needed to change that. I'm still not overly enamoured with Modern Classics (though they tend to be a lot shorter than Victorian Classics are, which can come as a relief) but I
I don't know if my appreciation of this should be tempered by the fact I was about three quarters of the way through before I realised I'd read it before (though I think it was many years ago)!PLOTIt is (mostly) set in Long Island in summer of 1922, amongst the young, idle, amoral rich, playing fast and loose with their own lives and indeed, those of others. All very glamorous, self-centred, and shallow, but the possibility of darker things lurking holds interest and tension. CHARACTERSEven if
The Great Gatsby is your neighbor you're best friends with until you find out he's a drug dealer. It charms you with some of the most elegant English prose ever published, making it difficult to discuss the novel without the urge to stammer awestruck about its beauty. It would be evidence enough to argue that F. Scott Fitzgerald was superhuman, if it wasn't for the fact that we know he also wrote This Side of Paradise.But despite its magic, the rhetoric is just that, and it is a cruel facade.
"The Great Gatsby" is considered by many to be the zenith of American fiction writing in the last century. I won't say that it is the best American novel I've read but I will say it is probably the most perfect.Along with J.D. Salinger, Fitzgerald has got to be my favorite writer of fiction. As opposed to Hemingway's bluntness, and Faulkner's artiness, Fitzgerald's prose seems(to paraphrase Michael Chabon) to rain down from style heaven. His style in fact is like the ladies he writes about:
Most Americans are assigned to read this novel in high school. Few American high schoolers have the wherewithal to appreciate this novel in full. I certainly did not. It is on a shortlist of novels that should, every 5 years starting at age 25, return to any American's required reading list.First things first: The opening of The Great Gatsby -- its first 3-4 pages -- ranks among the best of any novel in the English language, and so too does its ending. Both for their content and for their prose,
This is an all right-ish kind of novel, I suppose, but I always preferred Fitzgeralds little-known prequel The Average Gatsby, although some people found the vision of Mervyn Gatsby, Jays obscure brother, living a reasonably okayish life as the manager of a carpet and upholstery warehouse in Des Moines a trifle dispiriting. I quite agree that The Bad Gatsby was a shameless self-ripoff which did Fitzgerald no favours. (The threesome scene between Warren Harding, John Dillinger and Gatsby was in
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